I must applaud the letter from Larry Cox in the Sept. 27 Times News, re: his thinking about which political party deserves his future votes. Kudos to Larry Cox!

These Republicans evidently feel that the rule of law that they would claim to support is only well and good if they personally agree with the particular law. The ACA (Obamacare) is the law. The procedure for changing a federal law is identical to the procedure for establishment. By all rights, these Republicans should be charged with insurrection, and summarily removed from office.

It is apparent to me that these Republicans care little about the grievous agony to their citizenry/constituents caused by a federal government shutdown. What they do care greatly about is keeping their campaign contributions coming in, and keeping their place in office secure. And the most deplorable thing is that the main group of Republicans demanding that the ACA be changed at the expense and pain of a federal government shutdown have little if any worry of any difficulty being re-elected. And, apparently someone must be threatening any Republicans who vote against the positions of these Tea Party-type Republicans with major repercussions, like loss of their office. This threat will normally get the undivided attention of these congressional representatives.

Once again, I am left to wonder why the people decrying the ACA are not feeling ecstatic right about now that so many millions of their fellow American citizens will be soon getting desperately needed healthcare coverage. Do these church-going, supposedly Christian folk not see that the model for the ACA (put into place by Mitt Romney) is working well in the state of Massachusetts? Could it be that these evidently mighty selfish folks have their eyes closed to unwelcome facts? That, in addition to their monumental stubbornness in vehemently opposing anything supported by Obama.

This extreme intransigence exhibited by the congressional Republicans apparently is resultant from the realization that when the ACA goes into full effect in a few months, a huge number of people will be pleased with the program (as people now are in Massachusetts). As the Republicans may well imagine, the vast majority of these many people would undoubtedly be voting for Democrats in the future.